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Ok so my flatmate stores her piss in her room, we found this out the other day when we were cleaning the flat whilst she was away for the weekend and she had left some stuff in the kitchen so one of us went into her room to put it on her bed and there were loads of different containers (juice bottles, milk bottles, mugs, glasses) just filled with piss lying all over the floor of her room and it smells absolutely vile.

It has now kind of become the hot topic of conversation in our circle of friends so when she is away, which is most weekends. People like to take a quick excursion into her room to see it for themselves and confirm that something so unbelievable is true. Obviously we presume that she doesn't know that any of us knows.

Her room is generally just a state, it's a miracle our other flatmate actually managed to see the piss-filled containers amongst all the crap on her floor. She has clothes everywhere on the floor and over her bed and hasn't had a duvet or bed sheets for the duration of living here. She seems to be a mess in all aspects of her life. She owes me and another flatmate money for bills, had a job but lost it because she would go into work drunk from the night before, only has three hours of uni a week to keep her preoccupied and just goes out and gets pissed (no pun intended) most nights of the week. So yeah just a state really.

So this behaviour was all fairly ok because it hasn't really affected the rest of our flat (apart from when she throws up in the shower and doesn't clean it up when we tell her to) very much really, been easy to turn a blind eye to it. But it has now reached a critical mass because I got a text from our landlady yesterday saying that we need to have just a general tidy as she is coming round on Wednesday with a surveyor to value the flat which she does every few years apparently.

We've all generally tidied up the flat and asked her to clean her room up in a way that didn't mention the piss but it doesn't seem like she is going to do it and I've had surveyors round places I've stayed before and they do tend to be very thorough so he/she and our landlady will almost certainly go into her room and see it the way it is just now. Which could have all sorts of implications on us / be embarrassing for the girl/ shit for the landlady having someone to value her flat walk in on a room full of piss.

So my questions for you wise ladies and gents of DIS are:

1. Is her issue some sort of medical condition?
2. How can we mention the piss issue to her?

and most importantly,
3. How do we have her room respectable by tomorrow afternoon?

if she has loads of piss stored in her room and it isn't exactly hidden away, she won't be too bothered or embarrassed if people have seen it. just say that you noticed her room is a bit of a shit tip and it's in everyone's best interests if she tidies it a bit.

My housemate used to piss in a pint glass because he couldn't be bothered to walk downstairs at night. It may be that she is similarly lazy, has stored a lot of it and is trying to find the right time to dispose of it.

I didn't know at the time, but a few weeks later his housemates found loads of coke bottles in his wardrobe full of piss. Not saying two bottle-pissers make a summer, but combined with the shower vomiting thing it does sound like there could be something she needs help with.

As for broaching the issue, the house of the guy I knew who did it was basically Banterbury cathedral, so the rest of the house brought it up as soon and as often as they could, told everyone they knew and mocked him ruthlessly for it until he moved out. I wouldn't recommend this approach for her.

- Oh my uncle is a bit of a hoarder.
- Ha ha so is my aunt. She's got loads of old copies of the Radio Times and never throws out carrier bags as she reckons she might need them one day.
- My uncle stores his stank piss.
- Oh.

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because they don't want to leave games when they're mass tabling. there's always part of me that has felt like it's one huge troll but then there was a thread on 2+2 by a guy who said he played too long then shit himself on the way to the toilet and provided a picture of some pants with skids so fuck knows.

in short, i don't know if she's ill or not but just tell her the landlady won't be happy about it and whether you're all jointly responsible or not she should probably clean it up, especially if a surveyor is coming round

SOunds like hoarding. It also seems that her life is chaotic and her room reflects that. NOt taking time to address basic hygiene or take trips to the loo migh indicate low self esteem or come kind of OCD. I want to give her a hug.

As for the room- are you all jointly and severally liable for the rent/ potential loss of deposit? If so, I think you have the right to be throwing your weight around a bit to get her to sort this. You could always offer to help her tidy it, but if this is some kind of Thing, then she might be funny about that.

who used to piss in a bucket to save walking down the three flights of stairs to our only bathroom.

We found this out one day when another flatmate was sitting downstairs in the living room and heard an enormous splash on the courtyard outside, followed by an overpowering stink of piss filling the house about 20 minutes later. She said it took about 10 seconds to do the math:

She immediately went upstairs and tore him a new one, then made him come down and use his piss bucket to pour clean water over the puddle outside until it diluted.

The postscript to this is that she saw into his room for the first time when she was up there - apparently the walls (which were white elsewhere in the house) were solid brown from cigarette tar from his chain-smoking and never opening the windows. Terrifying.

DiSers normally get all kinds of mad when people on here say their landlords/housemates have been invading their personal space. She might well be mental, but you're breaking etiquette, i'm afraid. Then choosing to share the grusome details of it all with The Internet - a bit shitty all round, really.

but my friend had a very similar situation - when his housemate moved out there was a massive stash of piss in the room. his main explanation for it was that the housemate was diabetic so needed to piss a lot, and was quite far from the bathroom.
can imagine it's pretty awkward situation for the piss storer to try and sort out, and would be the sort of thing that would just be ignored because it's stressful

genuinely lovely song about how, driving on tour, he'd have to piss in a bottle to avoid taking breaks and get to gigs on time, and how it reminds him every time about his truck-driving dad doing the same

She sounds like an alcoholic who has a severely weakened bladder. She most likely has no ability to hold it in order to reach the bathroom in time and has to urinate in these containers to stop her pissing on the floor or in her bed. Being an alcoholic would also explain vomiting in the shower. Not cleaning any of this up is because she hasn't got the energy to.

So, it's up to you to help this person get through her difficulties and get on the path of being a fully functioning human being, which would involve sitting her down and explaining that you know about the jars of urine, including how you came to know about it.

You may not want, or need, to mention anything about alcoholism to her. This is simply an assumption from the sparse information you've provided, of course, not a serious medical evaluation.

She may be embarrassed at first, and then angry that you were in her room, but in the fullness of time she will come to appreciate your help and friendship in this difficult period of her life.

in my student days I didn't like getting up in the night for a piss, and I do this a lot when I have been drinking, so I would just piss in bottles. it gets quite addictive after a while. They get well weird, they kind of shrink as the piss absorbs the water (or expands) and you get some foamy white stuff separating out. If you open old bottles they fucking reek of egg. I don't do it any more, I am in a relationship.

She has started stealing our female flatmates clothes and not giving them back, just leaving them to fester in her room.

She has now, apparently, started using other peoples mugs, sports bottles, and those plastic containers that Chinese food comes in to store her piss.

Gone home for Christmas now without paying any of her share in bills and consistently lies about it with a very flimsy story to our faces saying she has transferred the money weeks ago, yet will not print screen her bank transfer page so that if her story is true we could go to our banks and refer to it. Worst flatmate ever.

<quote>Hi - as you can imagine the way you're leading your life is hugely negatively affecting the entire house. We have to ask you to leave unless you actually really do pay your bills and stop using other peoples' things.</quote>

If you haven't got the balls to do that, you're actually as socially strange as she is. Goddamn it DiS stop being wussies.

You might just get some callous fucker who wants their rent but if someone's doing something massively unsanitary that's making everyone else unhappy, it's not impossible that the landlady might choose to take action...

despite me asking him not to on numerous occasions.
out of pure laziness because he didn't want to go down the hall to the loo, he'd just fill up the nearest available container.
the worst thing about this was i would swig out of what i thought was a carton of juice only to find the contents were not what I was expecting. this happened several times. he thought it was hilarious.
this charming habit was just the tip of the iceberg.

my advice is to confront her, and tell her unless she tidies her disgusting pit of piss you'll clean it for her and chuck her shit out.

I had no idea that this was an issue when we got together obviously. He was initially really fake and pretended to be someone he wasn't. It will now be one of my opening questions, along with "are you into anything weird in the bedroom".

When she comes back and rings the doorbell, ask her if she's a friend of the ostrich's, make her a cup of tea and let her go to her former room. She'll probably sit there, spoon out and be like "When did I become friends wi...I don't really enjoy hanging out wi...where am I living at the..." and just thank you for the tea and leave forever.